Jira guides
How Jira organizes work, and how to see it clearly on Jira Cloud. Each guide answers one question and links its sources.
By Ahmad Fiaz Jan, who builds Cascade for Jira
Learn how Jira organizes work
4 guides
- Jira issue type hierarchy
The levels from initiative down to subtask, what each one is for, and how to see them.
- Epic vs story vs task
When to use each work type, with the differences side by side.
- Jira epics
What an epic is, how to create one, and how to see the work inside it.
- Show subtasks on a Jira board
Where Jira shows subtasks, and how to keep them under their parent.
See and share your work
4 guides
- Get a tree view without admin rights
Every route a regular user can take, and a note to send IT if extensions are blocked.
- See the full hierarchy without Premium
What Free and Standard already show, and what upgrading a whole site costs.
- See all the work under an epic
Copyable searches for what’s done, what’s stuck and who has what.
- Export Jira to Excel or CSV
Export a search, a board or a backlog, and keep the hierarchy intact.
Choose your tools
3 guides
- Jira hierarchy plugins compared
Structure, BigPicture and others: what each adds, and who has to install it.
- Best Chrome extensions for Jira
Seven extensions compared by job, with ratings and users from their store listings.
- Are Jira browser extensions safe?
What an extension can do with your Jira session, and what to check before installing.
Cascade is a Chrome extension that shows your epics, stories and subtasks together. It needs no admin install.
Add to Chrome (Chrome Web Store, opens in a new tab)Cascade runs in Chrome on a computer.